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Shady Business

  • Robin Hawdon
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 5M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573622571

Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face crisis.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis.

Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair with Gerry and Tania's affair with Terry, and set his sidekicks on them? Will he discover that he is owed money that was borrowed from his club's takings? Will Gerry be discovered hiding in Mandy's bathroom? Will Terry be rumbled delivering the dinner? Will Terry reveal that he is really Gerry and that Gerry is Terry? Will anyone figure out what the hell is going on, and will they all survive until the curtain comes down?

The action doesn't slow down from beginning to end in this madcap farce which has already played in many theatres in Europe and America.

The recent Paris production at the Theatre Michodiere saw the play relocated to the Pigale are of Paris with great success. The production is shortly to be televised for French TV.

REVIEWS:

"If the cheers and laughter of the audience on the first night are anything to go by, the Mill at Sonning has programmed another winner... the comic twists and turns are side-splitting... as in any good farce -- and this is a very goodone -- they are well worth the effort in following."

 Oxford Times

"The Mill At Sonning has picked a winner with its British premiere of Shady Business, a hilarious comedy set in the London underworld... the play takes off from the first moment, and the peace never flags... the first night audience was laughing throughout the performance and greeted the ending with a storm of rapturous applause."

 Maidenhead Advetiser

"Shady Business is the funniest production I have ever seen at the Mill, and the audience was roaring with laughter from start to finish...Full of mixed identities and barmy plots, the play was riveting and kept the audience guessing until the very end."

 Wokingham Times

"Packed with high-energy and mad comedy that rarely takes a breath until its side-splitting conclusion."

 Door County Advocate

"Produces big surprises that delight and astonish. It is Sopranos with laughing gas."

 Green Bay Press

Premiere Production: Shady Business was first presented in the USA by the Peninsular Players in Wisconsin, by The Mill at Sonning Dinner Theatre in the UK, and at Theatre Michodiere in Paris.
  • Casting: 5M, 2F

  • MANDY - a night-club dancer
    GERRY - her boy-friend
    TANIA - another dancer
    TERRY - a lad-about-town
    BIG MACK - a gang boss
    DOZER - his side-kick
    HARRY THE HAMMER - a loan shark
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    Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis.

    Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair with Gerry and Tania's affair with Terry, and set his sidekicks on them? Will he discover that he is owed money that was borrowed from his club's takings? Will Gerry be discovered hiding in Mandy's bathroom? Will Terry be rumbled delivering the dinner? Will Terry reveal that he is really Gerry and that Gerry is Terry? Will anyone figure out what the hell is going on, and will they all survive until the curtain comes down?

    The action doesn't slow down from beginning to end in this madcap farce which has already played in many theatres in Europe and America.

    The recent Paris production at the Theatre Michodiere saw the play relocated to the Pigale are of Paris with great success. The production is shortly to be televised for French TV.

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